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I’ve been reading this forum over the last month or so, before and after I purchased a FVP-500T.
The noise is driving me mad too, I’ve now got two foam pads on each ‘leg’ to try and suppress it. As another poster said, the irritating thing is it’s not constant, it comes and goes depending what it’s doing.
I previously had an old Digital Stream and while the fan was heard it was constant background noise so did not annoy in the same way.
I wonder if some people cant hear it because they have it behind glass doors on the TV cabinet. Mine is open with just shelves. I could hear it chattering away tonight whilst it was recording & I was watching another recording. Have the chinese put cheap hard drives in without Humax knowing? I dont want to open the case without voiding my warranty.
Dont think it is faulty I think it is the way it is.By the way this is a 500gb from Argos are the other noisy ones the same or a bigger hard drive?
andysue – 26 minutes ago »
By the way this is a 500gb from Argos are the other noisy ones the same or a bigger hard drive?
I also have a 500gb purchased from Argos.
My 1TB unit is virtually silent and just slightly warm.
andysue – 8 hours ago »
I wonder if some people cant hear it because they have it behind glass doors on the TV cabinet. Mine is open with just shelves. I could hear it chattering away tonight whilst it was recording & I was watching another recording. Have the chinese put cheap hard drives in without Humax knowing? I dont want to open the case without voiding my warranty.
Dont think it is faulty I think it is the way it is.By the way this is a 500gb from Argos are the other noisy ones the same or a bigger hard drive?
Mine is on a open glass shelf, it has a 2TB Seagate Pipeline in it as does the HDR-1000S on the shelf above it. Even with both recording and the audio muted you can just hear the drives from a few inches away. I sit about a a metre away and the shelf is roughly at ear level.
This morning as an experiment I started a voice recorder app on my tablet and placed it on top of the of the FVP-5000T and booted it. The sound of the drive booting and the heads moving can clearly be heard. Moving it to about a foot away you cannot hear anything from the drive, just my grandaughter chatting in the kitchen.
Do any of you have a tablet or smart phone and can install a sound level app. If so I can install same apps and compare levels at various distances ?
Photo of Barrys FVP-5000T 500GB internals clearly showing Seagate Pipeline 500GB HDDD.
https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/new-fvp-5000t-1/page/8#post-61234
Just to give a benchmark I have downloaded ” Decibel X” (free – with adverts) onto my iPhone 5s – and this is showing 45dB and the descriptor “Quiet Home” for my 4000T. That is with the phone resting on top of the box. R-
I don’t think that’s available on Android. However should be similar.
Background noise in room with nothing on and tablet 1 ft from FVP-5000t is average 36dB.
After booting FVP-5000T no change in average levels. Placing tablet on top of FVP-5000T average rises to 52dB.
Audio output was of course muted.
Interested to see what others find.
Yep – where I sit I get 38dB (Quiet Whisper). R-
RogerB – 7 minutes ago »
Yep – where I sit I get 38dB (Quiet Whisper). R-
Presumably turning off the box makes no difference ?
No difference – but that may be the clock behind me. R-
RogerB – 9 minutes ago »
No difference – but that may be the clock behind me. R-
AJ must have a very noisy box. No way it’s typical. Perhaps he will confirm what sort of noise levels he gets.
The Seagate pipeline drives that Humax use are not, in my limited experience, intrinsically noisy. The drive in my 1000S was completely silent but failed after 4&1/2 years. I replaced with another Seagate which was noticeably noisier, but it failed after two days and was returned (inadequate packaging by Amazon may have contributed). I replaced with a WD surveillance drive, which again is completely silent. I sit about 3 metres from the box, but even close to I can just hear a slight whirring. I have several media players with onboard Seagate drives. Again total silence.
Very interesting!
Average 50, max 53 with phone on the tv cabinet. Shows that it’s not extremely noisier than others which is good and maybe I will get used to it after time. This was when the box was on with nothing recording.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t notice in normal viewing, it’s when the room is quiet and it starts chattering that draws my attention.
AJ – 6 minutes ago »
Very interesting!
Average 50, max 53 with phone on the tv cabinet. Shows that it’s not extremely noisier than others which is good and maybe I will get used to it after time. This was when the box was on with nothing recording.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t notice in normal viewing, it’s when the room is quiet and it starts chattering that draws my attention.
50dB is way louder than 36dB. It’s a logarithmic scale. If your hard disk is generating that at more than a foot or so distance it must be way louder than normal.
http://www.industrialnoisecontrol.com/comparative-noise-examples.htm
All the time your box is on it’s recording, that’s how it can pause live TV.
The tests we did were in a quiet room with only normal background noise.
If the noise level where you sit in quiet room with the audio muted is higher than the background level when the box is booted, the drive is way too noisy. In my test with the box booted the level falls to the background level at around 12″ from the box. At 1M in a quiet room you cannot hear the hard drive at all.
What I have done now is aquired a kneepad???? yes a kneepad from when I worked at the electricity board. It is segmented (like an ice cube tray)but made of light rubbery plasticy stuff. Like these:-
It is just the right size to fit under neath the unit with the segments downwards which I would think breakup & disperse the noise. I didnt notice it whilst watching the TV tonight but havnt tried it yet while reading the local rag in a quiet room.I will experiment later.
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